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FIRST EDITION. This extremely rare atlas by Richard Phillips (1767-1840) appeared in just the one edition in 1808. It contains a series of maps engraved by H. Cooper. The same series of maps are also found in an ‘A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom’ also published by Phillips in 1808. Phillips although born in London was of a Leicestershire family and founded the ‘Leicestershire Herald’ in 1792. However the following year he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for selling Paine’s ‘Rights of Man’! After his sentence his house and business burnt down and with the insurance money he moved back to London. He became Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1807 and received a knighthood the following year. However, bad fortune struck again when he was declared bankrupt in 1811. Only the one recorded example of this work is known in the Cambridge University Library, although one other is known in a private collection. Provenance: private English collection. Refer Beresiner p. 80; Carroll 64.
PHILLIPS, Richard
An Atlas of the British Islands; Containing Forty-Six Maps Newly and Originally Drawn From the Population Returns, and Other Modern Authorities
Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808
Octavo (215 x 135 mm.), modern quarter cloth binding, gilt title to the spine. With typographic title page, one double page general map, contents leaf and 45 numbered maps of the counties and regions of the British Isles.
Stock number: 1907
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